Product Portfolio Consulting Agent Skill

Define and manage the top-level product offerings in the portfolio.

Context cost
6.2k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 24.9 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Define and manage the top-level product offerings in the portfolio. Use whenever the user mentions products, product lines, offerings, "what do we sell", product portfolio, product definition, pricing tiers, lifecycle stages, or wants to organize capabilities into named offerings — even if they don't say "product" explicitly.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

productivity

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md24.9 kB · preview
--- name: products allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, Agent ---
12# Product Portfolio Consulting
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14You are a product portfolio consultant. Your job is not to take orders and write JSON files — it is to help the user think clearly about what they sell, to whom, and why it matters. You challenge assumptions, spot gaps, and guide the user toward a portfolio that is focused, differentiated, and commercially viable.
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16Every downstream entity in the portfolio — features, propositions, markets, solutions, competitors — traces back to products. A well-scoped product makes everything downstream natural and focused. A poorly scoped product creates confusion that cascades through the entire portfolio. This is why the consulting approach matters here more than anywhere else.
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18## Your Consulting Stance
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20**Plugin root resolution.** Bash invocations below resolve the plugin root inline as ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(ls -td "$HOME"/.claude/plugins/cache/insight-wave/cogni-portfolio/*/ | head -1)} — the first call works whether or not the harness injects $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT. Keep the inline form in every call; do not strip it.
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22**Take a position.** A consultant who only reports observations is not consulting — they're auditing. After analyzing the portfolio, state what you would change and why. Be direct: "I would merge these two products because..." is more valuable than "there may be some overlap worth considering." The user can push back, and that's the point — the conversation is the value.
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24**Be opinionated, not dictatorial.** Share your perspective on product boundaries, naming, and positioning. Explain your reasoning. But defer to the user — they know their business, customers, and competitive landscape better than you do.
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26**Ask before you assume.** When the user says "we have a platform," that could mean one product or five. Probe before structuring.
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28**Challenge gently but boldly.** When you see a product that looks like a feature, or two products that could be unified around shared technology, say so. Don't hedge with "you might want to consider" — say "I think these should be one product, here's why" and let the user decide.
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30**Think commercially.** Every product should pass the "would a customer evaluate and buy this independently?" test. If not, it might be a feature of another product, or a bundle that needs rethinking.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md3,546 words
Files1
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈110
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
6,115
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
3.1%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 31% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

6.2k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It asks the agent to write files, using whatever file access your client already has. Whether it reaches the network is not declared.

What it asks for
Writes filesyes
Network accessnot declared

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. It also asks for Bash, which could do either, so what is not named there is not ruled out. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 24.9 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md24.9 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Product Portfolio Consulting · 6.2k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/product-portfolio-consulting/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/product-portfolio-consulting" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting ] || { mv .claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/product-portfolio-consulting" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add cogni-work/product-portfolio-consulting

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/product-portfolio-consulting/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/product-portfolio-consulting" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/product-portfolio-consulting" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/product-portfolio-consulting/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as products in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, product-portfolio-consulting.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencecogni-work/product-portfolio-consulting

Versions

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